Mason Bees Workshop - Part 1

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Saturday, March 1st, 2014
2:00 PM to 4:00 PM

In this introductory workshop to Mason Bees, Gord Hutchings will familiarize you with this amazing local pollinator. The orchard mason bee plays an integral role in the pollination of plants in North America. They emerge in early March as adults and are active until early June. To encourage Orchard Mason Bee females to lay eggs in human designed homes, Orchard Mason Bee keepers create residences with a variety of channeled orifices called �condos�.

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Gord Hutchings is a former field biologist specializing in dragonflies and general insect surveys for Conservation Data Centre, Royal B.C. Museum, Yukon Territory Government and Canadian Wildlife Service. Having kept orchard mason bees for the past twenty-five year, Gord�s research has been focused primarily on native bee species in the last few years and he is now looking into pollination of commercial operations such as farms and orchards.